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In many ways, we're trading size, convenience, and design for freedom. Consider: a large number of geeks can take apart, swap, and add the components of a desktop. A smaller number can take apart a laptop capably. A very tiny number can take apart an iPad, iPhone, or Android phone. Even the new Android phones are coming out with heavily encrypted boot loaders that prevent rooting and loading custom roms.
I still try take apart desktops and laptops occasionally just to keep in touch with the hardware that I run on. But even that leaves a large class of devices that i can't touch. I worry occasionally that we're slouching our way to big brother.
It is bad enough as it is, and of course you need to keep the trend to suck everything into the centralized cloud servers in mind, too. So it's not just the devices; our data is provisionally available as well. Those primitive EngSoc characters only had a screen in a wall. You could always hide in the prol quarters. They had it easy ...
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d_e_solomon · 4718 days ago · link ·
In some respects, I don't mind the cloud as much as there are usually easy enough alternatives to roll your own. On the other hand, it's the same bloody primrosed path to hell.
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